Welcome to my first upload. I know, it lacks good lighting. I dub thee "You and Me and a whole lot of (HUGE) room for improvements." Ü

WYJLH is about complicated and dumb relationships. I got the inspiration from the blogs I read earlier last year. I don't know whose shoes will you fit in, but I do hope you repost this vid. 

Thanks Emelita J for the video.

WYJLH
Andy Calope

You have seen what he did to you my queen. Would you just let him go on to hurt then beg to get inside your skirt? Would you just let him go on?

You can run away to where the rivers meet. Would you just let him go on to get what he wants that you don't need? Would you just let him go on to where your heart and soul stop breathing? Go on to where the moon will shine because the sun is right behind you.

He must be the one who took the best of you. Would you just let him go on to take and keep away the rest of you? Would you just let him go on?

Why do you keep on holding? Why do you keep on fighting? Why do you keep on trying? Would just let him go on to keep you hurting? Go on to keep you lying? Go on to keep you crying? Would you just let him go on to where your heart and soul stop breathing? Go on to where the moon will shine because the sun is right behind you.

Go on to where your heart and soul start believing. You must go on to where the moon will shine because the sun is right behind you.

Climate change is a hot topic in 2009. So hot that it affects everyday life, including songwriting. Here's my take.

This is a relatively easy song to play using only one chord progression.

Thanks Mark G for the video.

MOUNTAIN TOP
Andy Calope

Wake up to the sound of the mountain top. We'll never be the same again. When all the rivers have dried up we'll never be the same again.

When all the forests have receded into a plain of mystery; chaos in commodity. Clearly cut down the shade of our existence. Green symbolism of hope that we were longing before. Wake up to the sound of the mountain top. We'll never be the same again. When all these seeds wont be scattered soon, we'll never be the same again.

The air we breathe is like a hot-air balloon. The more it's heated the more it will depart the ground soon. Black smoke overlaying white clouds, brought a kind of rain that eats what is stored underground. Wake up to the sound of the mountain top. We'll never be the same again. Blown by the storm our future holds, we'll never be the same again.

The ice, they say, is getting thinner each day. Ocean rises and crashes unto nearby houses. Drink up! The sea is getting deeper. We have to leave sooner. Climb up to a higher ground.

Wake up to the sound of the mountain top. We'll never be the same again. When all the rivers dried up we'll never be the same again.

People change. This is my sentiment when I wrote HEY LOVE. It still remains a mystery to me why the good, sweet people you know at first eventually fade and turn into strangers. It's the greatest mystery in the world. An ugly truth... I think this song speaks about the truth. I take back my opening statement. This song is not about change. This song is about the truth. People don't change, they are just covered with mess, like onions; full of layers. When you first meet a person, she is already real. When she's nice, and all sweetness surrounds her, that's part of her outer layers. But when you get to know her deeply, you see her inner layers; monsters. Ergo we can't really say they change. It's just what they're made of. And that my friend is the ugly truth.

Thanks Joseph O for the video.

Note: Capturing video at 25fps and playing it at 29.97fps player is a total mess.

I'm never gonna peel onions again.

HEY LOVE
Andy Calope

Anyone who's been with me can tell that I'm hurt. When you went out with someone else than myself. I can see it in the look on your face everytime your cellphone rings. It used to be what I see everytime I start to sing.

Hey Love am I still the only one? Hey Love I can feel the warmth is gone.

We had this little tie-ups that I laced each day. But when I went to see you it's no longer on your brace. Instead I saw another wooden cube on strings. It starts with another letter no that ain't my name.

Hey Love am I still the only one? Hey Love I can feel the warmth is gone.

I want to see you but you don't want to. Look here. Eyes here. Listen to my finger. If you want to go out then go. If you need to... If you...

Hey Love am I still the only one? Hey Love I can feel the warmth is gone. Hey Love what the hell has gone wrong? Hey Love I can feel the warmth is gone.

This is about being in a situation that surrounds around the one you love. You spend your life with them; breathe with them. But when they're gone, you end up empty... tralala lala.

Dedicated to my brother Jet and his family.Thanks for transferring to another town and leaving me alone in the house. This is the result.

Thanks Paul R for the video.

EMPTY HOUSE
Andy Calope

Sitting here on my favorite chair
Listening to the sound of the walls of boredom
No one's home in this empty house
Wishing you would come back home to freedom

This is how it feels when you went away while I was away
I can't go after you 'cause I don't know where you'd go

My love will return; I don't know
Will she turn back; I'm not sure
My love is okay; I hope so
I'll just wait here in this empty house

No TV to learn the news
Where you've been or might have done for leaving
No sofa to reminisce
Those afternoons we spent for daytime loving
Love making

This is how it feels when you went away with my pair of jeans
I can't go after you 'cause I might burn my skin

My love will return; I don't know
Will she turn back; I'm not sure
My love is okay; I hope so
I'll just wait here in this empty house

This is how it feels when you went away with my Oakley shades
I can't come after you 'cause the sky's so bright

My love will return; I don't know
Will she turn back; I'm not sure
My love is okay; No one knows
I'll just wait here in this empty house

I thought I hear your footsteps
I thought I hear you knocking on the door
Then I realize those were droplets
Of my safranin soul breathing on the floor

TRIVIA: The word SAFRANIN is taken from an online friend whose chat id is SAFRANIN_SKIES.

Just a simple song about a girl (the 7th song of this series will also be about her) I met in 2009 that carries me to a different high.


Thanks to Rhoda T and Madel B for the video.


CARRY ME
Andy Calope

It's been so long I've got an empty heart
Then you came a long and made a brand new start
You carry me when I couldn't see
You carry me when I couldn't be

I've had my fair share of favorite friends
But it's you I call that I can depend
You carry me when I can't hold on
You carry me when I can't move on

Tonight I lay down
Tonight I set aside my fears when you're beside me

The morning comes it feels I can fly
Your sparkly brown eyes tell me why
You carry me when knocks me off my feet
You carry me just to carry me

This is originally a re-do of my supposedly wedding song. Since my supposedly wedding didn't push through, I had to dismantle the words to make it another wedding song for my cousin who is very in love. 

My performance of the song didn't push through during their wedding. Thankfully their wedding went through.

:)

Thanks Madel B for the very shaky video.

TOWARDS HEAVEN
Andy Calope

Flowers are blooming rare colors of blue
Dreams are to hold for
Every breath
And with every glimpse of you

Come walk with me
Towards heaven

Far to the sea
You take me there, take me there
Beauty and grace
Brought me here, you brought me here

Come dance with me
Towards heaven

Dance with me with all your heart and song
Hold my hand for today we'll soar

Come fly with me
Towards heaven
Come soar with me
Towards heaven

Faye is an arbitrary name of a girl who I fall for so madly. It started as an accidental meeting on a friend's party. Then we hook up online. We spend most of our getting-to-know-to-you online. 

Falling for her was not part of the plan. It's not supposed to happen. But the more I spend time with her, and get to know her, the more I fall upon her spell.

After some time chit-chatting online, we decided to meet. And meet we did. We see each other almost every Saturday. I even find reasons to get out of work during Saturday just to be with her.

Eventually, we come to a point that being US is not bound to happen. It's somewhat she's a way out of my league, and vice versa. The world's gonna curse us if we become US. It's not yet time. I don't know if there would be really a time.

So we had to end it. But she's done most of the killng. If constant communication and constant meet over was the key why I fall so hard for her, she killed it. No more communications. No more Saturday meet up. None.

To this day, everytime I remember my 2009, I could say it was the best. Eventhough the US part didn't make it, that SOMETHING we had is enough for me to stop and flash a smile.

She was one of a kind.

This song was written during the time when she started to kill. 

Thanks Hans A. for the video.

FAYE
Andy Calope

One look into your eyes see the perfect rhyme
It satisfies your song, it cries forever
But I didn't know the words
It should take some time
Time to learn to sing your song

So would you wait for me Faye

You said it's a long road I have to travel down
To make it real as seems, or dream forever
But time is running low
I cant afford to let you go
So let me try this one more time

Would you wait for me Faye

Your hair, your hair smells so fine
Your lips, your kiss does it taste like sweet wine
Your hand, your hand bends my spine
I just wanna be the first one and the last one
To call you mine

So would you wait for me
Would you wait for me
Wait for me
Wait for me...